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Slide 1: A Taste of TWiki |
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| The basic function of TWiki is a Wiki (if that helps!) |
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< < | A Wiki is like a normal web site, except that you can edit the content in your browser
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> > | A Wiki is like a web site, except that you can edit the content in your browser |
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- "Wiki" is short for "wiki wiki", the Hawaiian for "Quick"
- The idea originates from Macintosh Hypercard, via Ward Cunningham
- In Ward's words, Wiki is "the simplest online database that could possibly work"
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- A Wiki is basically a shared, online, persistant whiteboard
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- A Wiki is basically a shared, online, persistent whiteboard
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< < | TWiki implements the basic Wiki idea of a shared whiteboard
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TWiki implements the basic Wiki idea of a shared whiteboard |
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- Anyone can add content
... or change what is written ... or change the organisation of the content
- Whatever what you write is
... nicely presented ... remembered... and never forgotten
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TWiki is an Open-Source development on TWiki.org |
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- with over 100 regular contributors in many countries
Where is it used? |
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- TWiki is mainly used in commercial environments, often on corporate intranets
- Examples: Disney, SAP, British Telecom, Wind River, Motorola, Epic Games
- A number of public Wiki sites also use TWiki
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- Examples: Disney, British Telecom, SAP, Wind River, Motorola, Epic Games
A number of public Wiki sites also use TWiki |
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TWiki Features
TWiki builds on the original Wiki concept and adds a number of features that make it very useful in a business environment. |
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- TWiki pages are fully revision controlled, so a record of every change to every page is kept
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- TWiki pages are fully revision controlled, so a record of every change to every page is kept
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- The look-and-feel is highly configurable, through use of templates
- A "plugins" interface eases
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< < | | Diffs | r1.2 > r1.1 |
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- An ordinary URL pasted into text will appear as a link - http://www.google.com
- You can also prettify URLs using square brackets:
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[[http://www.google.com/][Google]] appears as Google
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- Use %SEARCH. This is an interface to a sophisticated search engine that embeds the results of the search in your page. See TWikiVariables for full details.
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- Attachments are simply files, in whatever format you want.
- TWiki recognises some file formats, notably image files (.gif)
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%ATTACHURL%/myco.gif to see this: /twiki/pub/TWiki/ATasteOfTWiki/myco.gif
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%ATTACHURL%/myco.gif to see this:
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Wiki Culture
Enough about mechanics; how is a wiki actually used ? Well, that's really up to you, but there are a number of tricks that the wiki community has developed for collaborative writing that work pretty well: |
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- A Wiki trick for grouping pages together
- Example: to group together a set of pages all relating to the weather:
- Create a page called 'CategoryWeather'
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- Put a SEARCH that contain the word 'CategoryWeather' into it
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- Put a SEARCH that contains the word 'CategoryWeather' into it
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%SEARCH{"CategoryWeather" nosearch="on" nosummary="on"}%
- Put the BumpyWord 'CategoryWeather' on all the pages relating to the weather
(usually at the bottom, below a horizontal bar)
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- TWikiDrawPlugin: Add quick sketches to pages
%DRAWING...
The following plugins are installed on this TWiki: SpreadSheetPlugin, AlbumOfSnapsPlugin, ApprovalPlugin, AttachmentListPlugin, CaptchaPlugin, CommentPlugin, CounterPlugin, EditTablePlugin, EmptyPlugin, ImageGalleryPlugin, ImagePlugin, InterwikiPlugin, NewsPlugin, PreferencesPlugin, RenderListPlugin, SendEmailPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, TablePlugin, TagMePlugin, TinyMCEPlugin, TopicTranslationsPlugin, TwistyPlugin, WysiwygPlugin |
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Credits and Acknowledgements |
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Related topics: WelcomeGuest, TWikiTutorial, ATasteOfTWikiTemplate? |
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-- TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie - 17 Feb 2004
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